A/N: Hey there again! I'll keep it short and brief; I haven't been able to upload chapter 3 and 4 on time for multiple reasons(See Chapter 3 if you want to know) so I'm doing them now. I've found out that I'm not going to Prom this weekend cause sadly, I have no date or friends that are going, so what's the point in going, right? So I figured I could use the money for A-Kon25 and for cosplay, also spend the weekend on working the next few chapters. Not sure who I'm goin' as, I was thinking about going as- Sorry, I'm rambling again. I don't think you guys want to know who I should cosplay as, but lett's leave that for another time. Here's Chapter 4! Enjoy!
Ch. 4 Midnight Highway Heist
After almost a full day of nothing but water skiing racing, working on cars, and talking about cars; both Fang and Lightning walked into the empty home of Fang's. It was almost 10 o'clock and their two sisters hadn't returned from their shopping date.
"Where's Serah and your sister."
"Her name's Vanille," Fang added in and flipped open her phone to check the clock and below that was the date. Her brows raised and she chuckled causing the other woman to raise her eyebrow in question. "Sorry, sorry. I just remember that today was their special day."
"Special day?" Lightning thought for a bit by what Fang had meant before her eyes widen in realization. Was Serah together with Vanille? Wait, does that mean that it's their anniversary today?! She reached into her pocket to whip out her cell to call Serah, but the tanned woman halted her in doing so as she grabbed onto her wrist lightly.
"Let 'em be, Sunshine, just for tonight."
"Let them be?" Lightning raised her voice a fraction and yanked her hand back for it to be released from the other woman's grip. "You want me," she pointed at herself, "to let them be."
Fang nodded which caused Lightning to scoff. "Look, it's their 2 year anniver-"
"Two years!?" The pink haired woman's voice was that of disbelief and anger, "They've been together for two years and I didn't know any of this!?" Fang swallowed thickly as she watched Lightning mumbled to herself in anger and paced around the kitchen.
Maybe telling her was a bad idea, thought Fang. Now she couldn't take anymore of the mumbling and silent threats that Light was whispering under her breath. "Light, come on, you're not serious about this are you." Lightning looked at her with a cold glare stating that she wasn't joking one bit. "Okay, maybe you were serious, but are you really gonna forbid Serah to stop seeing Vanille? She is 20 years old ya know."
The other woman lowered her gaze, Fang was right; she couldn't do that to Serah as much as she wanted to. Serah was old enough to make her own decisions, she'd known that. All she could do was accept her sister's decisions without question, well, most of her decisions anyway.
"Fine, I'll let them be for tonight, only because I don't want to hurt her feelings."
"Good, now, what do we do now.." Fang looked around the kitchen; she doubted that there was anything to be done that could be any entertaining to pass the time. Well, there was the idea of her ravishing the other woman on the island in the kitchen. Having to shove Lightning back onto the counter top and kiss her roughly as her hands began to wonder on their own accord on the woman's pale body, tugging down those tight jeans and raising her up onto the counter and-
"Fang, could you stop zoning out." Lightning had snapped her fingers in front of the brunette's face once the tanned woman reacted, she grabbed her keys. "I have to go, there's something I have to do."
"Right, now that I think about it so do I." She tried her best to hide her slightly tinted cheeks and chuckled nervously. "Guess, I'll see ya around then?"
"Maybe, thanks for today. It was… enjoyable." The pink haired woman grinned at Fang, "Also, no day dreaming about me. Okay. It's not gonna happen." She walked out of the house with a smug grin, leaving Fang standing alone in the kitchen with her thoughts.
"Damn."
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Serah and Vanille were held up at the pink haired girl's apartment for their special occasion. It was both of their anniversaries after two years of dating. Serah wasn't sure how she managed to survive the redhead's crazy antics, but in a way, she always relied on Vanille to keep a smile on her face with them. Oh yes, even when she was feeling down, her redhead girlfriend always managed to put a smile on her face.
"Vanille, I have something for you." Vanille looked up from nuzzling her face into her lover's lap. "Close your eyes."
"Ooo, is this a surprise?" Cooed the redhead.
"If it wasn't then I wouldn't be asking you to close your eyes now would I." The pink haired woman giggled and opened her bedside table, pulling out a small box from inside and placing it on Vanille's stomach. "Now you can open them."
The other woman sat up from lying down on Serah's lap to open her gift. She untied the bow on the box and removed the top, her eyes gazing down a pair of necklaces with one pendant of a crystallized apple and the other of a crystallized cherry blossom. "It's beautiful, Serah. I love it." Tears began to form at the corner of her eyes as she smiled, hugging the other woman close to her.
"Would you like to wear it?" Vanille nodded and turned around, handing the box over to Serah and the young woman took the necklace in hand then tied it around her neck. She then turned her lover around to face her, kissing her ever so passionately.
The redhead returned the kiss with the same passion if not more than Serah before pulling back to look at the pink haired woman," Now, your turn." Vanille had said when she took Serah's pendent of the cheery blossom and tied it around her neck. Serah smiled at the redhead and held her close.
"I love you, Vanille."
"And I love you too, Serah."
The two girls stayed in each other's embrace for a while before moving on to more 'adult' things for the rest of the night.
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Lightning got into Odin and started up her metallic horse-powered car and raced down the night street. She did mean what she said about the day being enjoyable. Who knew that she'd be able to beat the pulsian at water skiing? She did of course, but she'd rather keep her secret of being a merciless racer to herself. Race after race, Fang demanded a rematch only for her to be too happy to oblige. The memory made her chuckle, seeing the tanned woman frustrated face in her head.
"She isn't all that bad looking, pretty damn attractive in my opinion. Maybe I should consider it, what harm could it do."
After what seemed to be like 20 minutes, she had reached to the outskirts of town to an abandon looking warehouse. The white and gold vehicle pulled into the driveway that lead towards the back of the building. There were four customized vehicles behind the structure and their occupants socializing amongst each other and alongside those vehicles were another set of five vehicles but these were pitch black. One of them, a young man with charcoal colored spiked up hair and black shirt and coat and cargo pants looked towards her direction as she pulled up in front of the group. Noctis.
As Lighting got out of her car, the young man in black walked up to her. "Seems like you've finally made it."
"Ohhh, give her a break Nocty," another one from the group called out to the man in black. This one was a female, her voice cheery and slightly pitched which kinda reminded Lightning of Vanille, somewhat. But this girl's black attire was that of short mini shorts, a tank top with a dark sleeveless coat, and a black sash wrapped around her forehead that was covered up with her short hair in the front. She looked like some sort of ninja. Yuffie. "She was probably out having fun, isn't that right, Lightning."
She gave a simple nod to the girl and looked at two others that were perched up onto a bulky motorcycle. One with spiky blond hair like hers that slides off to the side but male; his choice of attire was black as well but his was a long loose sleeved shirt with the left sleeve cut off, cargo pants and black combat boots. He too wore a sash but on his right bicep. Cloud. The other person perched on the motorcycle was a young busty woman with long dark brown hair. She wore a white tank top that was accompanied with a black sleeveless trench coat and cargo pants and black boots, a black sash on her right bicep as well. Tifa.
"Yeah, the only thing she considers to be fun would be racing. And I'm sure we all know how that went." Another member of the group stated. He was a big man and dark skinned, wearing a black shirt and a dark jean sleeveless coat along with the blacken sash that was tied to his arm. The only thing about this individual that stood out was his mechanical right arm that went up to his elbow. Barrett. "Don't ya think so, Sid?" He looked at the other man he called who sat on top of one of the cars.
Sid wore a regular black attire with a t-shirt and pants, only additional thing was his goggles that he wore above his blond short hair and a black sash hanging onto his belt. "Yea, but I wouldn't doubt that she lost them either, Barrett." His voice sounded western like as he replied to the dark skinned man.
The crowd laughed but there was one male who didn't. He was content to lean up against his car, arms crossed and head bowed as his long hair draped in front of his face with eyes closed. Black sleeved shirt, and black torn up cape, black cargo pants with chains hanging on the side. Like the ninja like girl, he also wore a black sash around his head but his hair poked out from in between the sash that wrapped around his head. Vincent.
"Vinnieeee~!" Hollered the girl ninja at the male leaning against the car, "How long are you going to keep sleeping!?" The man opened his eyes and looked at the ninja, staring daggers at her.
"Yuffie, leave Vincent be. He's always like this, you should know this." The other female stated and looked at Yuffie.
"But Tifaaaa~."
"No buts Yuffie." The girl sulked and went to stand beside Vincent. Tifa looked at the blond besides her and nudged him, "You okay Cloud?"
The blond nodded, "I'm fine Tifa." He replied with a calm voice. A clear of the throat got all of their attention, it was Noctis as Lightning glared at the lot.
"If you all are done, I would like to get the briefing over with." Lightning spoke with a commanding tone to the group. "The shipment will be on route in the next ten minutes towards Palampolum. We need to get the contents before it reaches the city, you all know what to do and I don't want any mistakes either. Got it." Everyone had nodded in understanding and Light nodded back to them.
"Right, then let's get going." The pink haired woman walked towards the black set of vehicles.
There were two cars, two long bedded trucks, and one Indi-car getting into one of the cars. The windows were padded caged inside of the cars and trucks while the Indi-car had a tiltable ramp in the front of it. Both the cars and trucks were outfitted with NOS systems, tinted windows, and no license plates. Lightning and Noctis climbed into the cars, Cloud and Tifa along with Barrett and Sid got into the trucks, leaving Vincent and Yuffie in the Indi-car. All five cars and their occupants raced out from the warehouse grounds onto the street towards the highway where their prize was surely on the move.
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On the highway road that seemed so peaceful was the red cargo trailer making it's shipment to the bustling city of Palampolum. The city held the most family residents from the fallen incident of Cocoon. It was a great city after all, to live in if you had family. The driver of the trailer cargo was content on going on his merry way to the next city while listening to instrumental music.
With the cargo on its way, the five black vehicles began their decent onto the trailer that they were pursuing. "Alright, we're starting the mission now." Said Lightning as both her and Noctis drove up to the front of the truck and blocked the trailer from being able to pass them up; the two had kept the driver preoccupied as the two swerved around.
"What the hell are these two jackasses doing?" Questioned the truck driver as he began to honk his horn at the two drivers.
Vincent sped up the Indi-car towards the side of the trailer and eased up under the cargo shipment while keeping the same speed as the truck when the truck driver was distracted. Yuffie on the other hand took the fire torch from the compartment beneath her feet and began to cut out a space for her to get into the metal box. As Yuffie had started her job, both Cloud and Sid hung back behind the cargo and awaited for the ninja girl to open up the back doors for them two.
Once the girl beneath the trailer cut her way through, she climbed up into the trailer and turning on her flashlight, flashing around her surroundings.
Out of curiosity, the ninja walked up to one of the crates and opened them up, whistling at what's inside of the containers. "Whoa, so this is what we're after… Well sure make a pretty penny out of it." She giggled and walked over to the doors, cutting the doors open and then pushing it outwards. She signaled the two drivers that were behind the cargo for them to start on their jobs.
Cloud turned the truck around so he could drive backwards, flipping a switch for the door at the back of the truck to lower and lined up the bedding with the cargo box whereas Tifa opened up the back window and heaved up what looked to be like a heavy duty grapple. The female aimed her toy at one of the crates, pulling the trigger as the grapple cabling shot out and impaled one of the crates and begin pulling it back into the bed of the truck.
"One down," stated Tifa as the crate had been pulled back to the end of the bed. She's unhooked the grapple and shot it once again to retrieve another wooden box.
After the bed was full on Cloud's truck, Sid pulled his back up to take the blonde's place with Barrett hauling the crates into the bed. It was until the third to last crate when the grapple gun had jammed.
"Uh oh," Barrett started to hit the gun with his hand to get the piece of hardware to work again. "Come on. Work!"
"What's goin' on?" Asked Sid.
"Damn thing is jammed, we can't get the rest of the crates with this."
"Shit," muttered Sid under his breath, "You always have to mess things up don't you."
"Hey! It's not my fault besides we-"
"What's the hold up," Lightning called out through one of the communicators to Sid.
"Barrett jammed up the grapple," replied Sid as he kept tailing the truck. "And there's still three more in the cargo," added in Yuffie as she looked over at the last remaining cargo.
"Tifa," called out Lightning to the communicator that was placed in Cloud's truck.
The busty woman grabbed onto the communicator, "I'm here, what do you need me to do, Light."
"I need you to toss Barrett your grapple gun, once you have, take the boxes you've obtained back to the warehouse."
"Roger that." She put the small device down and pulled down the cage on the window. Tifa rolled down both windows on her side and started to climb out of the front passenger window. She reached into the opened window that was besides her and grabbed onto her grapple gun. "Bring me in closer to Sid, Cloud." He nodded and did what she asked.
As Cloud moved his truck to be parallel besides Sid's, Tifa tossed the gun into the opened window in the backseat. The dark skinned man grabbed onto the grapple gun and started to aim at the crates again.
"Hey Barrett," spoke out a calm voice, it was Cloud. "Try not the break this one."
Barrett snickered and the rest of the group did too, even Lightning. He had fired off the hook and it stuck into the crate and started to wheal it into the bed. Twice more times and all the crates that were in the cargo box were retrieved.
"We got all of them, going back to base," said Barrett.
Sid drove off with the packaged crates leaving the remaining drivers behind. Yuffie dropped down into the hole she made into the metal container back into her seat besides Vincent and the two of them swerved out from underneath the trailer and drifted around to follow Sid and Barrett. Only remaining two were Noctis and Lightning.
The both of them pulled out onto the side of the road and finally let the truck driver go with the now empty cargo. The both of them smirked and drifted into a semicircle to be next to each other, Lightning glanced to the side as Noctis did the same and revved his engine. That earned him a chuckle from the pink haired driver.
Noctis pulled up his communicator to this mouth, "How about a race, Light."
Lightning's only response was to rev her motor; she was up for another race, but this time with an old friend. "You're on, Caelum."
"Bring it, Farron."
The two revved their engines in anticipation for the race back to their base. This'll be all in the name of fun, no wagers, just for fun. Tires were screeching as the drivers were holding down the brake pedal along with the gas pedal, waiting for their countdown to sync with each other.
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A/N: And there you have it, the 4th Chapter. I know I could've done the heisting a bit better, but this is also the first for me to attempt of this sort of 'activity.' But I hope you guys enjoyed it nonetheless. You'll find out what are in the boxes if you all were curious in the next chapter. As always, please comment/review, follow, fav. If you lot have any suggestions on how I can improve for upcoming heisting scenes, please do share with me, I'd really appreciate it. Anyways, see you guys later on this week for the fifth chapter!